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Tuesday, March 10,  2009
      Editorial:A Trojan horse?

*Tigers fire at ship carrying supplies to civilian safety zone

Contrary to reports of an imminent US-spearheaded effort to mount an amphibious operation to evacuate civilians in the LTTE held area, now down to about 45 sq. km., authoritative military officials asserted that such an intervention seemed unlikely at the moment.

Responding to The Island queries, officials said that unless the US reached an...

Defence Secretary hugs former TMVPleader V. Muralitharan alias Karuna Amman after the latter took oaths as a Non-Cabinet Minister of National Integration and Reconciliation yesterday before President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees.
Pic by Sudath Silva


Controversy surrounds British checks on visas at BIA
Controversy surrounds Sri Lanka’s decision to authorise foreign embassies to interfere with the Department of Immigration and Emigration operations at the Bandaranaike International Airport.

First convoy of essentials takes A9
With a view to bringing down the prices of essential food items in the Jaffna peninsula, especially during the forthcoming Sinhala and Tamil New Year, the Government cleared the first convoy of about 30 lorries to take the A9 road...


Applying Obama victory on Sri Lanka
This is in reference to a news article about a show with the US Ambassador and a...
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